Comments on: How Strong is Your Faith? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/ by Hemant Mehta Sat, 26 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Maria http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60729 Maria Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:28:24 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60729 <blockquote>I think it really is backfiring on the Religious Right. The more they go to extremes to maintain or reclaim their political influence, the more they back themselves into a corner and alienate other Christians. I’m seeing more and more young Christians (even theologically conservative ones) who no longer want anything to do with the extreme Religious Right.</blockquote> I've noticed this as well.....

I think it really is backfiring on the Religious Right. The more they go to extremes to maintain or reclaim their political influence, the more they back themselves into a corner and alienate other Christians. I’m seeing more and more young Christians (even theologically conservative ones) who no longer want anything to do with the extreme Religious Right.

I’ve noticed this as well…..

]]> By: Mike C http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60674 Mike C Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:14:50 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60674 I think it really is backfiring on the Religious Right. The more they go to extremes to maintain or reclaim their political influence, the more they back themselves into a corner and alienate other Christians. I'm seeing more and more young Christians (even theologically conservative ones) who no longer want anything to do with the extreme Religious Right. I think it really is backfiring on the Religious Right. The more they go to extremes to maintain or reclaim their political influence, the more they back themselves into a corner and alienate other Christians. I’m seeing more and more young Christians (even theologically conservative ones) who no longer want anything to do with the extreme Religious Right.

]]> By: Richard http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60616 Richard Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:56:47 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60616 Wow. It is getting more and more clear that lines are being drawn. I think it is really backfiring on the religious right in America. Can you imagine what it would be like if the 15 % of Americans who don't call themselves believers could organize at all? Richard http://lifewithoutfaith.com Wow. It is getting more and more clear that lines are being drawn. I think it is really backfiring on the religious right in America.

Can you imagine what it would be like if the 15 % of Americans who don’t call themselves believers could organize at all?

Richard
http://lifewithoutfaith.com

]]> By: Mikel http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60604 Mikel Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:12:02 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60604 <blockquote>I’m sure there are atheists who have something to say about that third question…</blockquote> Haha No doubt!

I’m sure there are atheists who have something to say about that third question…

Haha No doubt!

]]> By: ansuzmannaz http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60601 ansuzmannaz Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:31 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60601 I may be quick to judge here, but the tone of the preview and the questions they ask make this program's creators sound like apologists for millitant fundamentalists. These people have created a lot of division and fear, because they say and do divisive and fearsome things. <i>That</i> cannot be ignored either. I may be quick to judge here, but the tone of the preview and the questions they ask make this program’s creators sound like apologists for millitant fundamentalists. These people have created a lot of division and fear, because they say and do divisive and fearsome things. That cannot be ignored either.

]]> By: Angela Lord http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60600 Angela Lord Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:03:25 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60600 Why am I reminded of the movie, Fatal Attraction? In which a violent delusional woman says, "I will not be IGNORED, Dan." Then she whips around manipulating, invading, terrorizing, and being wrathful. Even the bunny is not safe from her hellish behavior. The bunny! Why am I reminded of the movie, Fatal Attraction?

In which a violent delusional woman says, “I will not be IGNORED, Dan.”

Then she whips around manipulating, invading, terrorizing, and being wrathful. Even the bunny is not safe from her hellish behavior. The bunny!

]]> By: Tim D. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60599 Tim D. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:02:16 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60599 I just sent my I-Report to CNN. I hope I was civil enough (I try to avoid taking cheap shots at religious folk, because that tends to take the discussion down to pre-school level faster than you can take the Lord's name in vain). I just sent my I-Report to CNN. I hope I was civil enough (I try to avoid taking cheap shots at religious folk, because that tends to take the discussion down to pre-school level faster than you can take the Lord’s name in vain).

]]> By: olvlzl, no ism, no ist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60576 olvlzl, no ism, no ist Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:39:29 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60576 writerdd, I'm not. The religious right, certainly not the "christian" right in the United States is a fraud that is the greatest concentration of the worship of Mammon in the world. None of that is ironic if you look at their actions. If you mean what they say, that's not irony, it's hypocrisy. That said, those things are hardly absent from the non-religious either. CNN, huh. That God I don't have cable anymore. writerdd, I’m not. The religious right, certainly not the “christian” right in the United States is a fraud that is the greatest concentration of the worship of Mammon in the world. None of that is ironic if you look at their actions. If you mean what they say, that’s not irony, it’s hypocrisy. That said, those things are hardly absent from the non-religious either.

CNN, huh. That God I don’t have cable anymore.

]]> By: writerdd http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60569 writerdd Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:31:02 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/08/10/how-strong-is-your-faith/#comment-60569 Does anyone besides me find it ironic that the religious right is so rife with "materialism, greed, and sexual corruption" and that their own policies are what "have caused anger, division and fear"? Does anyone besides me find it ironic that the religious right is so rife with “materialism, greed, and sexual corruption” and that their own policies are what “have caused anger, division and fear”?

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